[USML Announce] USML - 2022 Season update

[Mark Blocker]

Happy birthday Andy !

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 7:10 AM Doug Shabelman <doug.shabelman at burnsent.com>
wrote:

> A quick happy birthday to Chancellor Andrew Klein whose Chief of Staff and
> speechwriter will receive this note before he does.
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> Andy, hope your reign is as successful as the IUPUI women’s basketball
> team!
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> Doug Shabelman
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> CEO, Burns Entertainment
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> On Feb 6, 2022, at 5:23 PM, Blocker, Mark B. via Announce <
> announce at usml.net> wrote:
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> League:
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>   I am writing with an update on plans for the USML season. As all of you
> have read, it appears likely that both spring training and the start of the
> season may be delayed. Some are projecting that the season may not start
> until May. As a result, we need to do some contingency planning to address
> the delayed start. Here is a tentative plan for consideration, which I have
> discussed with a subset of league owners.
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> 1.  Draft: The draft will proceed as scheduled on Sunday, March 27, 2022
> (Mark K: put this date in your calendar).  Given that we have 11 owners,
> finding a future date on short notice when 11 different people can block
> off a big chunk of time seems unlikely.
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> 2.  Auction/Draft eligible players:  There are a sizeable number of
> players who remain free agents because of the timing of the lockout. Some
> of those players have values vastly in excess of their salary in a rotation
> draft. This has happened in the past, but never in the sort of numbers that
> exist now. As a result, the current thinking is that we will exclude those
> players from the auction and the rotation draft.  A sample:  Freddie
> Freeman, Trevor Story, Kris Bryant, Nick Castellanos, Kyle Schwarber, Kyle
> Seager, Anthony Rizzo, Jorge Soler, Jonathan Villar, Tommy Pham, Eddie
> Rosario, Josh Harrison, Nelson Cruz, Carlos Correa, Clayton Kershaw, Carlos
> Rodon, and Zack Greinke.
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> 3.  Supplemental Draft:  The current thinking is that we will take the
> Excluded Players and have a short supplemental auction/draft. The precise
> contours are not yet determined; we are assembling a list to determine the
> best path.  If we have an auction for those players, they will be
> tradeable. If we have a draft for those players, then they will not be
> tradeable. Whether auction or draft, the thinking is that they will not be
> retainable. Also, if one of the Excluded Players is currently eligible for
> retention on a USML roster, we will have some system for right of first
> refusal.
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>   Two important points.  First, none of this is set in stone; comments are
> welcome on these proposals. Second, I recognize that none of this is ideal,
> but we are an adaptable group and I am sure we can find an acceptable
> solution.
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